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Distressed corona healthcare warriors in India call for respect
Updated On: 17 April, 2020 03:39 PM IST | | IANS
Despite working non-stop, without thinking about their own families, the front line health workers continue to face stigma for doing their job

Doctors and medical staff in a hospital hold placards to protest against the assaults on health workers in different parts of the country during the nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19. Photo: AFP
New Delhi: With novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases growing rapidly in India, overburdened doctors, nurses and healthcare personnel at the frontline are facing immense pressure from the society at large. While fighting against the deadly virus, they are continuously facing threats and abuses from the society, affecting their mental health as they battle it out in the ICUs as well as inside the corona patients wards.
According to Sujith, Chief of Nursing Services, Columbia Asia Hospital in Pune, it is disheartening to see that people, for whom the fraternity has been taking so much risk to ensure their health and safety, have failed them.

